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HARRISBURG, Pa. — A judge ruled yesterday that he will consider only written arguments in
deciding whether to dismiss charges against three former Penn State administrators accused of
covering up child sex-abuse allegations against former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.

Dauphin County Judge Todd Hoover’s decision came at the close of a hearing in the case against
the university’s former president, Graham Spanier, former Athletic Director Tim Curley and former
Vice President Gary Schultz.

Hoover said attorneys should make their cases in writing, and he ruled out oral arguments to
help him decide on the defendants’ request that all charges be dismissed because their attorney
testified against them before a grand jury.

The three school officials are accused of lying to a grand jury when they said they were unaware
of a 1998 allegation that Sandusky had showered with a boy.

Cynthia Baldwin, the university’s top lawyer at the time, helped the men prepare for their
grand-jury testimony. In that testimony, the three officials denied knowledge of the 1998 incident,
according to court records.

But Baldwin, who is a former state Supreme Court justice, contradicted them when she was called
as a witness before the grand jury, saying that they were well-versed in the details of the 1998
incident.

The three men argue that Baldwin’s testimony before the secret panel violated their
attorney-client privilege.

Spanier, Curley and Schultz are asking that their testimony before the grand jury, and the
charges against them, be thrown out. They argue in court documents that they were not fully aware
that Baldwin could put the university’s interests ahead of theirs.